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Remember when you had to pull the head just to check the injector cups?
Back in the late 90s working on 7.3 Powerstrokes, if you had a coolant leak into the fuel, you were pulling the whole cylinder head to get to those cups. It was a two-day job, easy. Now, with the right boroscope camera, you can snake it down the injector bore and check for cracks in maybe 30 minutes. The tech changed around 2010 when those cheap, good cameras hit the market. It saves so much time and money on a diag. Anyone else have an old-school job that's been totally changed by a simple tool?
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luna2611d ago
Wait, you had to pull the entire head just to check? That's insane. I can't imagine doing all that work just for a look. Modern tools really did flip everything on its head.
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the_leo14h ago
Was it really that big of a deal though? It sounds like a rough job, but people did it all the time back then. They knew the steps and just got on with it. Now we spend half an hour looking at a screen instead of turning wrenches. I'm not sure staring at a camera feed is that much better of a skill. Sometimes the old way just built character, you know?
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